RWS Group

RWS Group
plc
Industry Patent and commercial translations, patent searches, patent database
Founded 1961 (as Woolcott & Co.)
Headquarters Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, U.K.
Key people
 Andrew Brode, Chairman
Number of employees
 900
Parent RWS Holdings plc
Website www.rws.com Edit this on Wikidata

RWS Group provides intellectual property translation, filing and search services, and technical and commercial translation and localization.

History

The company was created from a merger between M.H. Randall & Partners (a specialist translation company) and Woolcott & Co (a specialist patent and technical information searching company) in 1982.[1] In 2005 it acquired Eclipse Translations, a company formed in December 1996. In 2015 it acquired Corporate Translations Inc. (CTi), a Connecticut-based life sciences translation and linguistic validation provider for a $70 million in cash.[2] Then in 2017, the company acquired LUZ, Inc., a US-based life sciences language services provider for $82.5 million: the company raised £40 million of the consideration by issuing 12.1m ordinary shares with the rest funded by a $26.3 million banking facility from Barclays.[3]

Locations

RWS Group headquarters are in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, UK. Its Information Division is based in Tavistock Square, London. The Group has production sites in Germany, Japan and China, and offices in France, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA.

Subsidiary companies

Services

The company provides intellectual property support services and high level technical, legal and financial translation services. It has two principal business activities:

  • Translations, which incorporates patent, commercial and technical translation services
  • Information, which includes a comprehensive range of patent search, retrieval and monitoring services as well as PatBase (developed in partnership with Minesoft Ltd), a searchable commercial patent database, available as a subscription service.

References

  1. ↑ "About Us: Company History". RWS Group. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  2. ↑ Faes, Florian (2015-11-04). "RWS Doubles Down on Life Sciences and Acquires CTi for $70M". Slator. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  3. ↑ "RWS Holdings: Best kept secret". Walbrock Research. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "PharmaQuest". Corporate Translation Inc. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  5. ↑ "Historie" [History]. RWS-Group (in German). Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  6. ↑ "Historie" [History]. RWS-Group (in Swiss German). Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  7. ↑ "Locations". inovia. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
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